Alas, once again a militaristic, command and control style of governance is prevailing over Indigenous and Canadian relations. Early Monday morning, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) arrested demonstrators at the rail blockade in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, near Belleville, Ontario. The…
Harry Chapin: image by Cindy Funk All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. Bill Hicks Brian Wilson‘s 1966 song lyrics, “I’m pickin’ up good vibrations, she’s giving me excitations. Good, good, good – good vibrations,” eludes to one of…
image source: CBC Recently, I wrote a blog titled “Lessons on Love” in which I implied a correlation between a country’s culture of loving kindness and its citizens’ happiness and quality of life. In the two lists of top 10…
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.William Shakespeare Somewhere between 1564 and 1616, Shakespeare wrote the words above. If I were to read between his lines, I would suggest he was advising us to lead with love. Given…
As an avid proponent of objective journalism, I often feel like CBC Radio’s published news and views may be as close to the truth as media can take us. Nonetheless, a recent Sunday Edition by Michael Enright disappointed me. Enright’s…
Madness, as in the theme of my soon-to-be-published poetry book, is a relative experience. For instance, the three weeks leading up to Xmas day can be fraught with the chaos of gifts to buy, trees to adorn, lights to hang…
In his recent book, We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer, speaks to his personal 4-point plan to fight climate change. He states concisely what most of us already know — the top four…
In his 10th edition of The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton (2015) draws “the proverbial line in the sand” when he states, “On one side … is a world defined by neo-Darwinism, which casts life as an unending war among…
In the end, it’s all a question of balance. Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, 1995 One of my greatest life lessons could be simplified to “all things in moderation.” In my case, choosing the path of moderation literally pulled me…
The level of structure that people seek always is in direct ratio to the amount of chaos they have inside. Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All As with any behaviour, in its extreme, control becomes dysfunctional and even delusional. …
Photo: Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles alludes to the Forever Brand of bicycles that flooded China’s streets during the artist’s childhood yet remained financially out of reach for many. We must all suffer from one of two pains. The pain of…
When the chips are down, I can attest from personal experience that one of the hardest decisions we face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder. Think of a situation (climate change, etc.) or a personal…
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